I was leading somewhere positive. ...When I start dashing teenaged boys over the head, I shall begin with the impatient ones.
[Susan and positive don't generally belong in the same sentence, as a rule of thumb for future interactions.]
In any case.
What all of that means, practically, is two things.
The first - there are, amongst us, people who will kill without provocation. They enjoy it. They'll be very good at hiding it. Ideally, we'll be able to identify them before any murders happen at all, but denial never got anyone anywhere helpful. We find them first.
The second - there are, amongst us, people who will kill as the pressure intensifies, for their own sakes. This is liable to occur later down the line as the weeks set in; it may happen accidentally in a fit of nerves, or it may be planned with the desperate hope of escape. But it will happen. What we must do, then, is offer hope. If the only hope of escape is murder, then why shouldn't they go along with it? But if we can offer the hope that we can all escape together, if we can identify the breaking point and deny it, then another option - a preferable option - has presented itself.
[A slight pause.]
And when I say 'we', I mean 'I', as this is the brilliant plan I created last night around midnight whilst staring at the ceiling. You can help if you'd like now you know all my secrets.
Practically speaking, of course, self-defense never hurt anyone, either. I suppose I should learn deja fu.
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[Susan and positive don't generally belong in the same sentence, as a rule of thumb for future interactions.]
In any case.
What all of that means, practically, is two things.
The first - there are, amongst us, people who will kill without provocation. They enjoy it. They'll be very good at hiding it. Ideally, we'll be able to identify them before any murders happen at all, but denial never got anyone anywhere helpful. We find them first.
The second - there are, amongst us, people who will kill as the pressure intensifies, for their own sakes. This is liable to occur later down the line as the weeks set in; it may happen accidentally in a fit of nerves, or it may be planned with the desperate hope of escape. But it will happen. What we must do, then, is offer hope. If the only hope of escape is murder, then why shouldn't they go along with it? But if we can offer the hope that we can all escape together, if we can identify the breaking point and deny it, then another option - a preferable option - has presented itself.
[A slight pause.]
And when I say 'we', I mean 'I', as this is the brilliant plan I created last night around midnight whilst staring at the ceiling. You can help if you'd like now you know all my secrets.
Practically speaking, of course, self-defense never hurt anyone, either. I suppose I should learn deja fu.